Regional manifestation of the widespread disruption of soil-landscapes by the 4 kyr BP impact-linked dust event using pedo-sedimentary micro-fabrics

New Trends in Soil Micromorphology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-236

  Courty, Marie Agnès ^a   Crisci, Alex ^b   Fedoroff, Michel ^c   Grice, Kliti ^d   Greenwood, Paul ^d   Mermoux, Michel ^e   Smith, David ^f   Thiemens, Mark ^g  

^a Centre europeen de recherches prehistoriques   (France)

^b CMTC INP   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e LEPMI   (France)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

air blast; dust; flash heating; Impact ejecta; soil destabilization; soil surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84655164607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79134-8_12     Document Type: Chapter

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